Frozenprince
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Considering the GOP national positions are in general, deplorable.
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Gov Charlie Baker (R) MA joins the US Climate Alliance
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Mr_Antimatter
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Come on Maryland! We were massively blue this election, and the current governor seems pro environment.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
According to adn.com, a local paper here, Anchorage is considering joining the other cities.
V
Vilix
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The state of Texas will never join. But cities like Houston and Austin will.
TestOfTide
Banned
It's Charlie Baker. Like when people call him a moderate republican, it's not in some bullshit "Susan collins" sort of way. He actually is a moderate republican.
Because Martha Coakley keeps insisting on running for office.
Smokey_Run
Member
Sadly, Wolf has to play politics because he's likely in for a tough reelection campaign next year. He's tweeted supportive comments, but that will be the extent of it.
TestOfTide
Banned
I'm sure Chris Sununu will manage to make you regret saying that.
as someone that helped the campaign in NH I still don't get how the fuck Hillary and Maggie won in NH yet somehow Colin lost to Sununu
TestOfTide
Banned
AbsolutBro
Member
Hogan continues to be at odds with the state of Maryland over just about everything. I will be genuinely shocked if that chickenshit crosses the (R) line.
Glad I voted for Baker. He has been great so far.
Fuck Martha Coakley.
He is more liberal than most liberals. Romney was very different, but a decent Governor as well.
Fuck Martha Coakley.
He is more liberal than most liberals. Romney was very different, but a decent Governor as well.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
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Thank God she works for Draft Kings now.
boiled goose
good with gravy
Regarding MA Republicans.
MA is so blue that the Democrats in power here are extremely corrupt. Moderate Republicans can win if they dont seem uber corrupt.
Another aspect to remember is that MA is also a very wealthy state. Connections and knowing the right people matter. Lots of businesses interests can skew things not only between parties but within them
There are also lots of progressive Democrats too. But they are not the ones in power in the house, which in ma the house has more power than the senate.
MA is so blue that the Democrats in power here are extremely corrupt. Moderate Republicans can win if they dont seem uber corrupt.
Another aspect to remember is that MA is also a very wealthy state. Connections and knowing the right people matter. Lots of businesses interests can skew things not only between parties but within them
There are also lots of progressive Democrats too. But they are not the ones in power in the house, which in ma the house has more power than the senate.
Autodidact
Banned
Finally a real Moderate Darling!
Earth
Waylon Drums
Member
I don't hate Charlie Baker, but I've never been able to get past his fake fisherman story.
www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/3...n-story-wrong/dHDSOAmgnUsW9i9yN3Ua2I/amp.html
www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/3...n-story-wrong/dHDSOAmgnUsW9i9yN3Ua2I/amp.html
well, he vetoed the HC reform but it was pushed through by 2/3rds majority.
We haven't been able to find a New Bedford highway serial killer, so I doubt the drugged Portugue fisherman have a clue anyway.
Yeah he seems pretty chill
superdeluxe
Member
Didn't Romney get a single payer healthcare going in Massachusetts? Or tried?
People still have RomneyCare to this day.
superdeluxe
Member
Vermont joined as well
I guess you know nothing of MA politics. Many of our governors have been Republican and most would be considered Democrat virtually everywhere else in the country. He has also has the highest approval rating of any governor in the country.
He's done a decent job so far, even if he's hesitated on some issues for longer than he should have. Don't regret voting for him in the least. But we'll see who his opponent is when he's up for election.
And the Devil's ploy.
superdeluxe
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Galactic Barret
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It almost seems like Trump is the real-life version of Lelouch Lamperouge.
He is uniting people by trying to be the most detestable human being on the planet.
He is uniting people by trying to be the most detestable human being on the planet.
That last one is the most correct, IMO. This state is very blue with a very regimented Democratic party, and every once in awhile the Democrats get it into their head they can get away with anything and nominate someone who's "put in their time" instead of the best candidate. Coakley was a terrible candidate, completely unwilling to do any of the standard campaigning stuff (at one point she was incredulous that people wanted her to go out and shake hands in public). She really came off as assuming the job was hers.
I've got some real problems with Baker's proposals, but he's not awful and I can understand why people voted for him. Coakley was just so unlikeable to so many people.
IrishNinja
Member
happy to see this
can't wait for FL to be a solid decade late like we've been with other stuff
can't wait for FL to be a solid decade late like we've been with other stuff
Frozenprince
Banned
It's hard to have a low approval rating in MA, to be fair.
I've lived here for a bit now and I've yet to see one.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Might want to read the stories,
Texas has its major cities in, Tennessee has cities in, Atlanta Georgia is in, couple in Florida.
Cities, yes. Whole states, no.
But I doubt all the North will join. I suspect it'll mostly be the West Coast and the Northeast.
It's pretty great in a way, instead of being apathetic about the environment ppl are getting pretty worked up
GitarooMan
Member
Baker can be rational but he's definitely still a Republican, just not a Trump nutter. He did try to push that charter school bullshit last year. Luckily most of the voters were too smart to fall for that crap. Good for him on this though.
Radical right wing state governments will put a stop to that soon enough, just as they've taken away local power on sanctuary cities, bathroom laws, and wage laws.
Herr Schwarz
Banned
"You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you might find
You get what you need"
The first lines to the song trump would play after he left stage after he finished his rallies.
Something almost tangibly prescient about it to this day.
But if you try sometimes well you might find
You get what you need"
The first lines to the song trump would play after he left stage after he finished his rallies.
Something almost tangibly prescient about it to this day.
superdeluxe
Member
Hawaii is in the alliance, we're up to 8
Tal Shiar Agent
Banned
I love how Wikipedia has formatted the Climate Alliance page almost like a nation.
2018 will be her time at last!
The ad he cut for that was so infuriating.
The Albatross
Member
Baker is the most popular governor (perhaps most popular politician) in the US. He's been enjoying a 75% approval rating in a heavily Democratic state, largely for doing things like this.
He's done a very good job in Massachusetts, which has the lowest unemployment rate in the country (well, did at least up to April, not sure about May), the highest wages, the best school system, and he's closed a multi-billion-dollar budget deficit, as well as other populist measures (tolls removed on the T, two successful MBTA seasons after 5 disastrous ones, helped GE move its corporate HQ to Boston, new tech jobs, unveiled free college plan w/ Democratic mayor of Boston, and he's worked really well with the Democratic legislature in the state, criticized Trump on Climate deal, criticized Trump on immigration, criticized Trump on anti-LGBTQ, criticized trump on firing Comey).
There are three Democrats who have announced they'll be running against him in 2018, but so far, none are really able to gain any footing.
Privately he's a very nice, personable, soft-spoken person who seems genuinely interested in listening to people. Had the chance to meet him at a teacher's union event last year. He's also a giant of a man.. like 6'7" with enormous hands. I'd love to see Baker, Comey, and Obama take on Trump, Kushner, and Bannon in a 3 on 3 basketball tournament. It'd be like NBA Street when you get Stretch, Yeti, and Bonafide on a single team.
You might be forgetting Jane Swift
But for what it's worth, Baker has had a higher approval than Deval Patrick and Mitt Romney; Patrick was still a popular governor, Romney was initially popular as well but waned as he focused on a national career. You are right that Massachusetts always has a blindspot for some of its politicians, considering that something like 4 or 5 speakers of the MA house had been indicted in a row, and yet they all enjoyed relatively high approval ratings from their constituents even when they were facing criminal charges.
Not really... Romney enacted the health care reform bill, but line-item vetoed 8 sections of it, which the MA legislature over-rode eventually. The MA governor has line-item veto authority, so he can sign any appropriations bill while vetoing specific elements of it. THe biggest veto at the time was the equivalent of the employer mandate (Called the 'Assessment' in MA), which Romney vetoed because he wanted it either cut down from 11 employees to 8, or from ~$300/employee penalty to ~$150/employee penalty. THe legislature ended up passing it as written after over-riding the veto.